Am 24.01.2021 um 13:18 schrieb Alejandro Colomar: > This is useful for using tee to just write to a file, > at the end of a pipeline, > without having to redirect to /dev/null > > Example: > > echo 'foo' | sudo tee -q /etc/foo; > > is equivalent to the old (and ugly) > > echo 'foo' | sudo tee /etc/foo >/dev/null; Why don't you just do echo foo > /etc/foo or sudo sh -c 'echo foo > /etc/foo' ? I don't normally use sudo, so there might be some better way of using it. Kind regards, Philipp